Embossed Book of Silver

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Embossed Book of Silver is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Book of Silver ×1, Silver Ingot ×3, Enchanted Silver Ink ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 15 units, plus 25 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,735 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,233 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 8 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 17 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 10 Water Shard, 9 Lightning Shard and 6 Wind Shard.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Alchemist to Lv 38, Weaver to Lv 32 and Goldsmith to Lv 23 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 5 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 1 comes from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Silver Ingot has the widest use: 157 recipes call for it, spanning eight of the eight crafting classes.